If I were Obama, I'd be pretty annoyed with the Nobel committee...

[Writer]

because this was the news, I'm certain, that his administration wanted to play most heavily in the news media:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-obama-regulation10-2009oct10,0,2185841.story

Reporting from Washington - President Obama today urged Congress to ignore the lobbying from banks and business groups and create a new agency to protect consumers in the financial marketplace as part of an overhaul of government regulations.

"They're doing what they always do -- descending on Congress, using every bit of influence they have to maintain the status quo that has maximized their profits at the expense of American consumers, despite the fact that recently a whole bunch of those same American consumers bailed them out as a consequence of the bad decisions that they made," Obama said at a White House event.

Obama's talk was designed to give his financial regulatory overhaul momentum as a key congressional committee is set to vote next week on whether to create the new agency and on other parts of the plan.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Heh - I thought it would be this...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/9/791581/-Tester-Pushes-Senate-Whip-Count-for-Public-Option-to-51

[babylonsister]

2. Yea, I'm sure he's annoyed. This kind of brought it home to me...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8692832&mesg_id=8692832

[Sky Masterson]

3. Why do you hate america?

This is the Nobel peace prize! :eyes: Don't be freaken pissing on our parade.
We don't care about shit that actually matters..
;) :P

[DevonRex]

4. Right.

:rofl:

[stray cat]

5. Hard to be to pissed off about being given the Nobel Peace Prize - humble is the appropriate term

[Writer]

7. But wouldn't it be nice if the public were talking about the consumer protection agency...

and not that "fracking" Nobel Peace Prize? :P

[janx]

6. Annoyed?

:rofl:

It may have been a surprise, but it surely wasn't an unpleasant one. ;-)

My God, this president has so much going on at once that I can't understand how he can handle it all.

[Clio the Leo]

8. lol yep.....

.... I'm even saving an article from the UK Times which talks about a shift in the AfPak strategy until for the weekend or Monday.